Series
The Dark Tower
Stephen King · 8 novels · 2 novellas · 5 novelettes · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1978–2016
The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one novella, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels.
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A curated way into the series.
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
The main sequence in its published order, with one insertion: The Wind Through the Keyhole was the last of the eight to be published, but it is set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla, and this list places it there. Excerpts and tie-ins are left out; eight books plus one companion carry the whole journey, with The Eyes of the Dragon placed after Wizard and Glass, where its villain's role in Roland's world pays off.
- Roland(7 works)
- Omnibus editions(4 editions)
Map
The Dark Tower at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s7
- 1990s4
- 2000s7
- 2010s2
Shape
8 novels · 2 novellas · 5 novelettes · 5 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:dark fantasyquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 95% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 21 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Gunslingerdarkest · calmest
- Wizard and Glassbrightest
- The Drawing of the Threemost intense